Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

sensitive

/ˈsɛn.sɪt.ɪv/ adjective, noun

Forms sensitives sensative

  1. adjective Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.
  2. adjective Responsive to stimuli.
  3. adjective (of a person) Easily offended, upset, or hurt. “Max is very sensitive; he cried today because of the bad news.”
  4. adjective (of an issue, topic, etc.) Capable of offending, upsetting, or hurting. “Religion is often a sensitive topic of discussion and should be avoided when dealing with foreign business associates.”
  5. adjective Meant to be concealed or kept secret. “These are highly sensitive documents.”
  6. adjective Being aware of the feelings of others and taking care not to offend them. “Thank you for being sensitive.”
  7. adjective Important, intricate, and requiring great delicacy. “The president's untimely statement disrupted some very sensitive negotiations.”
  8. adjective (of an instrument) Accurate; able to register small changes in some property.
  9. noun A person with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive.

Synonyms

aware caring classified compassionate nesh precise tender medium spiritualist sensible sore raw

Antonyms

insensitive nonsensitive resistant stoic uncaring

Etymology

From Middle French sensitif, from Medieval Latin sensitivus. By surface analysis, sense + -ite + -ive.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.
  2. adjective Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected.

Etymology [F. sensitif. See Sense.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “sensitive”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “sensitive” (best matches first).

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